Mr Trump has often spoken of his love for Scotland and its people and had been a regular visitor to the country for many years, but this is his first trip since becoming the US leader.

Secretary of State for Scotland David Mundell greeted Mr Trump after his Air Force One jet landed at Prestwick Airport in Scotland on Friday evening.

The American president did not meet Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, however, she denied she had refused to see him.

At a gay pride event in Glasgow on Saturday, she told the BBC: "If the opportunity arises to meet the president I will do that and I'm sure if the opportunity arises in the future we will have lots to talk about, including the close and very important links between our two countries.

"In democracies, it's also important to be able to focus also on where we perhaps disagree, and lots of people disagree with the policies of the Trump administration."

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Donald Trump spent most of Saturday afternoon playing a game of golf at Turnberry, the course he bought in 2014

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Snipers are positioned around the resort, with a heavy police presence

While Mr Trump was at Turnberry, police estimated that about 9,000 protesters walked from the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh to the Meadows for a "carnival of resistance".

The event featured the giant Trump Baby balloon, which was banned from both Turnberry and Holyrood.

Mr Trump - whose mother was Scottish - and members of his family are spending the weekend at the hotel he bought in 2014 before departing on Sunday for the meeting with Russian leader Mr Putin in Finland the following day.

The paraglider stunt, which happened shortly after Mr Trump and his entourage arrived at Turnberry, was reportedly staged by Greenpeace.

Ben Stewart, a spokesman for the organisation, told the BBC: "It wasn't dangerous at all. We let the police know about 10 or 15 minutes before that we were coming in.

"We phoned them, we had someone on the police line who informed them. We thought it was important that the president actually saw a real-life protester.

"There's tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of people on the streets around the UK."

The police said no arrest had been made.

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Media captionGlider protester at Trump's resort

Police insisted they wanted to strike a balance between "protection and public safety and the public's right to peacefully protest".

However, Assistant Chief Constable Mark Williams said officers were committed to tracing the person who flew the aircraft.

He added: "There are armed assets protecting the president - both from the US Secret Service and ourselves and the Met Police, who offer a close protection function as well.

"And there's no doubt anybody who breaches security around him puts themselves in grave danger.

"On this occasion we could assess the situation and we realised there was no direct threat to the president however it's absolutely something that is very serious."

As well as playing host to one of the world's most powerful men, Turnberry was the venue for a wedding on Saturday afternoon.